Pam has been successfully working and studying in the spiritual care field for ten years. She is an extremely well rounded in the demographics she has worked with, the issues she has dealt with, the scope of religious understanding she has grappled with, and the depth of challenge she has been responsible for. You will find that her professional and gifted spiritual skills are current with the needs in our society and groundbreaking for most chaplaincy circles.

My Spiritual Journey:

Through a time of working through abandonment, loss, and shame, she conjured a calling into the spiritual and ceremonial avenues of wisdom. She is well seasoned in the experiences of healing and have an eye for what transformation looks like. She has cultivated a deep patience and a good ear for the most vulnerable. Upon working in the institutional settings of a personal care home with the dying and in a residential treatment facility with youth she has come to respect the challenges we face during various phases of our lives. She also worked with people with disabilities and in community mental health bearing witness to the preciousness of life and richness of all relationships.

Professional Training:

Her university studies included degrees in both Theology and Recreational Studies and two units of Clinical Pastoral Education. She is currently working on her Masters of Arts in spiritual care and is an elder in training through the Orphan School of Wisdom near Ottawa Ontario. She has also obtained several certificates in grief and loss, compassionate listening, as well as Mindful Based Stress Reduction. Reiki was introduced to her over 15 years ago and has been practicing as a certified Reiki master for several years also cultivating her gifted sense for the divine. Born as an extremely sensitive person, she has come to utilize the blessings of her inherent abilities.

Religious leanings:

Her religious life has wandered through many a door step from its origins as a baptized Mennonite into an exploration into several religious understandings including spending time abroad in India. Presently she is attending Augustine United church and have been following her calling into the aboriginal way of life. Her connections with the aboriginal way has been long standing however in the last five years she has been called into the ceremonial way of life by her Ojibway spiritual brothers and sisters. She was also adopted into a cree family and given the cree name Wapanmahihkan meaning Morningwolf. In carrying out her responsibilities to her spiritual name, she has been working closely with a few different elders assisting them with their weekly ceremonies.

Welcome!

Please allow me to introduce myself in a more traditional way: Thank you creator for giving me life. Welcome my spiritual friends, My spirit name is Wapanmahihkan (Morningwolf in Cree), I am from the wolf clan. I was born in Selkirk, Manitoba. Thank you, Miigwech for today.